Tech Therapy

Jill Koziol is the co-founder and CEO of Motherly a modern lifestyle brand redefining motherhood with its 30M+ monthly audience. She is also the co-author of "The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama: Redefining the Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Journey" and "This Is Motherhood: A Motherly Collection of Reflections and Practices".

In this episode, Jill and Dave begin by discussing her professional and personal background and her recent move to Park City, Utah. Jill also deeply discusses her reasons for starting Motherly and the strong, complementary relationship she's been able to build with her Co-Founder, Elizabeth Tenety. Jill also explains changes needing to be made around the current state of motherhood in the United States such as shifting societal expectations, prioritizing affordable child care, paid family leaves, and better maternal health support.

More about Jill Koziol at:
Website: https://www.mother.ly/year-of-the-mother/
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jillkoziol

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: www.teleportgroup.com
LinkedIn: dsingraham

Jonathan Matus is the mission-driven CEO of Zendrive. Founded in 2013, Zendrive is a company that is making roads safe through data and analytics.

In this episode, Jonathan discusses with Dave his college experience and professional background. Jonathan talks about his mental journey as well realizing he wanted a more mission-driven career that made a real positive social impact. He also relays the hardships and challenges that arise at each stage of entrepreneurship and bringing a company to life.

More about Jonathan Matus at:
Website: https://zendrive.com/
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jmatus
Twitter: zendrive

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: www.teleportgroup.com
LinkedIn: dsingraham

Anu Nigam is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He is currently a Partner at Enjoy The Work.

Anu and Dave discuss deeply the causes and possible solutions to the loneliness of entrepreneurship in each stage of success and/or failure. Anu also describes his professional background and his time working with startup founders.

More about Anu Nigam at:
Website: www.enjoythework.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/anigam
Twitter: anigam

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: www.teleportgroup.com
LinkedIn: dsingraham

John Vars is an experienced musician, software engineer, CPO, and is currently the CEO at Mixhalo. In this episode, John describes his professional journey as a college student, software engineer, founder, and business leader.

John dives deeply into his philosophies and lessons learned as a CEO & leader, such as the lean management philosophy. He also speaks about the importance of continuous improvement within a company and through personal development. How do we do this on a daily level? John explains how he has incorporated this growth mindset into his company through the concept of visual management, prioritizing standards over a process, having regular Success Meetings, personal tracking, and urging for everyone in his company to continuously be self-reflecting.

More about John Vars at:
Website: mixhalo.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/johnvars
Book Recommendations: Lean Strategy and Learning to Scale
Twitter: johnv

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: www.teleportgroup.com
LinkedIn: dsingraham

Katie & Jeremy Neilson are the Co-Founders of Assure. Assure is a company that provides professional, high-quality private transaction administrative services at volume. In this episode, Katie and Jeremy discuss how they met and how they've learned to balance their marriage with their business. They also discuss the unique aspects of running a business with your partner, such as, how they've found they compliment each other in a business environment and how they've adjusted managing Assure together over time.

More about Jeremy & Katie Neilson at:
Website: assure.co
Twitter: @jtneilson 

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: www.teleportgroup.com
LinkedIn: dsingraham

Adam J. Simons experienced investor, advisor, and board member describes his professional experiences and his journey taking his business from side hustle status to his full-time job.

Dave & Adam also discuss:
-Adam's experience working with founders
-How COVID has affected the way Adam does business & his personal life
-The fundraising environment right now
-Startup ecosystem differences based on geography
-How to lead a company with empathy, decisiveness, and clear communication

More about Adam Simons at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adamjsimons
Website: https://www.adamjsimons.com/

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

When the majority of individuals think about the near future of artificial intelligence, it's often much more unrealistic then what it's applications will truly look like. In this episode, Bindu and Dave dive into topics like her life growing up in India, the culture shock she experienced moving to the United States, and how Bindu believes the future of AI will be incredibly transformational.

Bindu Reddy has a very unique perspective of the tech world and how it has and will continue to transform. Bindu has worked with companies like Amazon & Google and has been witnessed first hand the 21st-century tech revolution. Bindu discusses with Dave the process of founding Abacus.AI, the beneficial uses of AI, why AI is still intimidating to most, the AI revolution that is close at hand, and AI's potential in its ability to forecast.

More about Bindu Reddy at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bindureddy
Website: https://abacus.ai/

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

Joe Kaiser is a senior investor with Mercato Partners, previously having nearly 20 years of experience as both an operator and investor.

In this episode, Joe & Dave, discuss themes of:
-Keys to success in investing.
-Building honest business relationships.
-Joe's personality and interests growing up and in college.
-Primary communication styles based on geography.
-The importance of well-balanced collaboration.
-The effects of COVID-19 on business and lifestyle.

More about Joe Kaiser at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joe-kaiser-a88a142
Twitter: josephjkaiser
Website: https://mercatopartners.com/

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/ 

Cameron Steele is the Co-Founder/CEO of Leaseable, a data management platform exclusively for commercial real estate owners. In this episode, Cameron relays his professional background and experiences, such as living all over the world, how he got into the tech industry, and the creation of Leaseable.

More about Cameron Steele at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csteele555/
Twitter: cameronsteele
Website: leaseable.com

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/ 

In this episode, we had the pleasure of hosting, Ev Kontsevoy, CoFounder, and CEO of Gravitational. Gravitational helps companies to securely deliver their applications into multiple clouds, on-premises, and even 3rd party infrastructure.

Dave and Ev discussed Ev's journey of moving to the United States from Siberia to become an engineer. Specifically, discussed is the learning curve he experienced with language and culture. Along with this, Ev shares his career background leading up to the founding of Gravataional in 2015. Other themes discussed are companies struggle to adapt to fast-paced innovation and the debate between centralized vs decentralized computing.

More about Ev Kontsevoy at:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kontsevoy
Twitter: kontsevoy
Website: https://gravitational.com/

More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:
Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/